Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
QUIET SABBATH

4 QUIET SABBATH
Nay He Enjoyed II the Good work Gee
on-Examinatlon In Judge Hamilton
~Class-Ssble Slick Goes Down Foot.
Yesterday was q busy ono for Polio
Magistrate Hamilton, AZ an unususll,
bounti6ed harvest of bilks. beats, an
bummers; suckers, slushers and s~wiggler
had heen gathered in by the police sine
Saturday, and awaited their doom at hi
hands. At the morning session the follow
ing cases we're disposed Of: :.
Pat Shea. for committing q nuisance o.
Wyoming street. val multched in the sun
of SO and costs, which he paid. and wen
on his way rejoicing.
Martin Scion. for creating q distnrhane
and smashing dishes in the Chinese reseau
rant on Broadway, Saturday night. pait
IS and costs.
Pat Gaugban, a lusty looking youn,
Hibernian, with q bruised optic AND severa
Commissions on his lugubrious features
plead guilty to a charge Of creating u dis
turbance, and was committed in default o
a fine Of IS and costs.
Frank Jones. for INDUCING in a scrim
mage with Billy, the Boxer, was fined s.
and costs.
A. P. Stuart was proved guilty Of com
hitting y nuisance on Park street, and
fined IS and costs.
Chas. Gilmer. an obstreperons individual
who created u disturbance in a Main street
saloon, gave security for IS and costs
and was again permitted to breath the
invigorating air of liberty.
John O'TooIe, arrested for participating
in the prize fight on Sunday evening, wat
discharged.
Chance Harris, charged with being a com
mon drunkard and q nuisance, plead mot
guilty. and will have another hearing thif
evening.
Pat Moran. charged with vagrancy. said
be work. ed all summer and wal just pa. inl
his second visit to the great mining camp
when the police Ia" him in. He acknowl.
edged ha ving filled himself with the choicest
brands of Butte in~toxicants until his c
teeth were floating, but Indignantly denied
the charge of vagrancy. He will make fur
Their explanation this evening.
Edward Reynolds. in Dswer to the
charge of vagraney, said be lad been work
ing on the street railroad, and was to have
worked yesterday it the police had only let
him alone. His case will come up this
evening.
John Wolver. a one-armed young man,
also charged with loafing around the sa-
LIONS and having no visible e of sup
port, said it wasn't 80; he had a meal
ticket and some money IN mis- pocket when
He will have another hearing
this afternoon.
At the evening session, VIM. O'Connell.
alias Billy the Boxer, was ried for fighting
Il nd wiping the floor Of a Park street a
loon with two me with whom he had a
quarrel. Billy protested that he
had consented to spend the
tine night in the calaboose OF the
understanding that he wal to be
released in the morning. or as soon as he
was sober. He regarded it as q breach OF
trust on the part Of Chief Meikleiohn to
brought against him as an outrage or q
law-abiding citizen. The absence OF a Sec
ton of epidermis from Billy's left cheek
bone, and the evidence Of several witnesses,
being rather contradictory to his state
ments, he was committed in default of $40
and costs.
Con. Murphy, Q dark visaged man with
a pronounced Irish brogue, charged with
vagrancy. pleaded in extenuation his
broken arm. Several policemen and other
witnesses testified that Con. had his arm
broken last July, and that he escaped from
the hospital and got gloriously drunk On
occasions. That since his discharge
be has made himself a nuisance. sleeping in
the chairs Of the saloons, and guarreling
with more desirable customers. His honor
said: "Con Murphy, you have been here
several times for drunkenness, and once for
a pistol on q man. I will issue g.
against you tomorrow even
ing for thirty days and costs. The best
thing you can do il to rid the town Of your
The town is no use to YOU and I
don't think you are any use to the town.
The commitment will stand against you
at all times after Z o'clock tomorrow
evening""
"All right yer honor" said Murphy. I'm
be aft in the mornin', good aven,n'," and
he slouched out of the hall, to be seen
there, it is to be fervently hoped, no more
Up to this time the Court had great diff
Guilty in noting down the disposal OF the
prisoners, as the gas had failed, and an
almost Cimmerian gloom pervaded the
hall. 1t was hoped, however, that the
business on hand could be worked off with
out resortiny to other means of illnulina.
ton. but this was not to be. There was
still one prisoner in the basement, and a
guard was dispatched to bring him up. AS
az the door was opened to admit him,
The gloom suddenly deepened to d thick
aud palpable darkness of the Egyptian
variety. The prisoner was secured, while
messenger WAS sent for b kerosene lamp.
When he returned with the lamp the cause
,f the t~hickening of the gloom was made
crarpnf The nrISnnar wa nm FfhinrSov,
- black IS q stick OF the best India ink.
Fhe feeble glimmer of the gas lights had no
against him, but the kerosene lamp
ighted up an area OF a few square feet
round the judges desk. and enabled him
O distinguish the prisoner when the latter
forced to hold his nose wi. hin two
n"hes Of the lamp glass.
The prisoner proved to be that slippery
known AS Slick" He gave his
as Joshua SuIlette and ind 'gnantly de-
ned the charge of vagrancy. He produced
quarter from the depths of a No. IA shoe
nd submitted that it WAS visible means of
upport. He claimed that he worked with
regularity, but wouldn't work I'M
,ss well paid. He declared that be bought
$40 oveccoat that was found in his
3 years old and was married 10 Iowa in
$40, and left a large family there in 1871.
his was too much for His Honor. who
sentenced the sable Slick to
hirty days and costs. When Slick gets
ut he will be forced by the city Marshal TO
tart for Iows and rejoin his family, if they
i'll let him. He is one Of a gang hat have
depredatiOns in this
ty. several o! whom have, through the in.
uence of the Marshal, betakeu themselves
, more favorable fields for their business,
hich is rather overdone here.